Ruth Finds Favor

Ruth’s deeds is noticed by Boaz. Eventually, finds favor in his eyes to treat her kindly.

The same way she is blessed by Hashem.

“Boaz”

Naomi had a relative through her husband, a man of substance, from the family of Elimelech; his name was Boaz.
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… “Hashem be with you!” And they answered him, “May Hashem bless you!”
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…”Why have I found favor in your eyes that you should take special note of me though I am a foreigner?”
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May Hashem reward your deed, and may your payment be full from Hashem, the God of Israel, under Whose wings you have come to seek refuge.”
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… May the one that took [such generous] notice of you be blessed.” … “The name of the man by whom I worked today is Boaz.”
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… “Blessed is he to Hashem, Who has not failed in His kindness to the living or to the dead! …
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1 Now Naomi had a kinsman of her husband, a mighty man of valor, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “I will go now to the field, and I will glean among the ears of grain, after someone whom I will please.” And she said, “Go, my daughter.”
3 And she went, and she came, and she gleaned in the field after the reapers, and her chance was [to come to] the field that [belonged] to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
4 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and he said to the reapers, “May the Lord be with you!” And they said to him, “The Lord bless you.”
5 Then Boaz said to his servant, who stood over the reapers, “To whom does this maiden belong?”
6 And the servant in charge of the reapers answered and said, “She is a Moabite maiden who returned with Naomi from the fields of Moab.
7 And she said, ‘I will now glean and gather from among the sheaves after the reapers.’ And she came and stood even from the morning until now, except when she sat a little in the house.”
8 And Boaz said to Ruth, “Have you not heard, my daughter? Do not go to glean in another field, neither shall you go away from here, and here you shall stay with my maidens.
9 Your eyes shall be on the field that they reap, and you shall follow them; have I not ordered the youths not to touch you? And [if] you are thirsty, you may go to the vessels and drink from that which the youths draw.”
10 And she fell on her face and prostrated herself to the ground, and she said to him, “Why have I pleased you that you should take cognizance of me, seeing that I am a foreigner?”
11 And Boaz replied and said to her, “It has been told to me all that you did for your mother-in-law after your husband’s death, and you left your father and your mother and your native land, and you went to a people that you did not know before.
12 May the Lord reward your deeds, and may your reward be full from the Lord God of Israel, under Whose wings you have come to take shelter.”
13 And she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me, and you have spoken to the heart of your handmaid, but I am not [as worthy] as one of your handmaids.”
14 And Boaz said to her at mealtime, “Come here and partake of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” So she sat down beside the reapers, and he handed her parched grain, and she ate and was sated and left over.
15 And she rose to glean, and Boaz ordered his servants, saying, “Let her glean also among the sheaves, and do not embarrass her.
16 And also, pretend to forget some of the bundles for her, and leave it that she may glean, and do not scold her.”
17 And she gleaned in the field until evening, and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
18 And she carried [it] and came to the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she took [it] out and gave her what she had left over after being sated.
19 And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today and where have you worked? May he who took heed of you be blessed.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and she said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”
20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he of the Lord, who did not leave off his kindness with the living or with the deceased.” And Naomi said to her, “The man is our kinsman; he is one of our near kinsmen.”
21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also said to me; You shall stay with my youths until they finish my entire harvest.”
22 And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, so that they do not molest you in another field.”
23 And she stayed with Boaz’s maidens to glean until the completion of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest, and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.